🚀 go-pugleaf

> > All in all, Quake 4 will be the first really relevant game since Quake
2,
>
> In what ways were Q3 and Doom3 not relevant to your thinking?

Umm, I often explained my despise for Quake 3. The gameplay and the graphics
suck as well, it's a
Bubblegum - version of Quake, aimed for the masses. Quake 1 & 2 were for
real, Quake 2 is my thing,
Quake 3 is the decline of the Quake series.
It was always so obvious for me that iD would never do a Quake game again
.... because there is no substance
in Quake 3. There is absolutely nothing relevant in Quake 3 that the Quake 2
deathmatch scene in 1998 did't have to offer.
   To distract you from the lack of substance and originality, they threw in
tons and tons of these unnecessary shader effects
and let something blink, warp, flow, change colors and so on every damn
virtual meter of the maps. There is still no real graphical beauty
in these maps.When I ran around in them without enemies, just to look at the
stuff, I found nothing that impressed me. Maybe
because it's all in bad taste, and because the Quake 3 engine sucks .....
the world it renders does just not look like a reality, different than in
Quake 2.

The surprising solution was, that someone else would make Quake IV  :)
And they MUST do it right. Let's pray they do ....



> I was told there are games built in Asia to rival Id's games but no one in
> the US
> talks about them because 1) you cant get them or play them here, 2) The US
> is too US-centric! There are gamers more nutz about gaming over there
> and they tend to game in groups since 1) they are a more socially oriented
> culture, 2) therefore there are more gaming cafes to cater to gamers and
> they have
> higher broadband speeds than we do.
>
> > an addictive, fast Multiplayermode.( Hope they make it right )
>
> I hope they make it right. And very fast. Like Shogo was!



Umm, are you talking about first person games like the ones we discuss here,
or rather fighting games like the ones from
Capcom ?